The two Tsavo parks, East and West, are intersected by the Nairobi-Mombasa railroad. The railway was made famous by a pair of lions responsible for the deaths of more than 120 construction workers led by Colonel John Henry Patterson who were working to build a bridge the Tsavo River in 1898. The legend of the Man-Eaters of Tsavo lives on to this day. After two-and-a-half decades as Patterson's floor rugs, the lions' skins were sold to the Chicago Field Museum in 1924 for a sum of $5,000.